April 3, 2008
What a dope...
Filed by Mike Rogers | April 03, 2008 | 3:30 PM |What more is there to say about these idiots? Report: Stabenow's husband paid prostitute in sting Thomas Athans, the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and cofounder of a liberal talk radio network, told Troy police detectives that he paid...Read More
When Jerre Met Sally
Filed by Steve Ralls | April 03, 2008 | 2:15 PM |If Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern wants to talk about terror, Islam or cancer, she should look up Jerre Fine in the Oklahoma City phonebook. Fine, a veteran of the United States Air Force, was based at Fort Gordon, Georgia, and...Read More
Bay Area: Free Writing Workshop for Queer and Trans of Color Survivors of Violence
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | April 03, 2008 | 1:26 PM |Just in from the marvelous Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: What Your Body Wants to Say: Writing As Rebellion and Healing For Queer and Trans of Color Survivors of Violence. Taught by Suzanne del Mazo and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Sunday, April 13-...Read More
John McCain Won't Oppose Anti-Gay GOP Platform
Filed by Michael Crawford | April 03, 2008 | 1:03 PM |John McCain's campaign advisers say that he will not seek to "soften" anti-gay and anti-choice planks in the Republican Party platform. McCain associates told The Washington Times that his operatives are not going to work behind the scenes to eliminate...Read More
Exhausting Race, Pt. 1
Filed by Terrance Heath | April 03, 2008 | 12:59 PM |We are all, as Sean Gonsalves wrote, morally exhausted from dealing with and talking about race. But, to borrow from an old spiritual, we have little choice but to "run on, see what the end will be," because the exhausting...Read More
Head to head: Jim Schellinger and Jill Long Thompson
Filed by Bil Browning | April 03, 2008 | 12:14 PM |Both Democratic gubernatorial candidates will be going head to head at a fundraiser tomorrow night for the Stonewall Democrats. The LGBT democrats group will host the event at the home of Indianapolis City-County Council member Jackie Nytes. A general reception...Read More
How to make your political campaign ad look like a Benetton commercial
Filed by Ed Team | April 03, 2008 | 12:01 PM |Having studied over 1,000 campaign photos since 1994, I am now able to offer prospective candidates "the formula" to use to achieve maximum "diversity appreciation." It is: (1) African-American man (young Buppie in glasses); (1) Latino man (middle-aged in plaid...Read More
First Leno - now Letterman
Filed by Bil Browning | April 03, 2008 | 11:30 AM |While Jay Leno got taken to the woodshed over his "your gayest face" comment, last night's Late Night with David Letterman takes offensive to a whole new level. Letterman's Top Ten List focused on the pregnant trans man. Just wait...Read More
Sex ed for boys
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 03, 2008 | 10:46 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch The 50's filmstrip they showed after the girls left the room. Coach McCreepy explains it all to America's smallest track team, who evidently love to talk about wet dreams apropos nothing. Part 2 is after...Read More
Rebates
Filed by Ricci Levy | April 03, 2008 | 10:32 AM |A friend just shared this with me, pointing out that it is clearly in the best interest of the government to legalize sex! "The federal government is sending each and every one of us a $600 rebate. If we spend...Read More
We don't have a box for that
Filed by Waymon Hudson | April 03, 2008 | 10:19 AM |Sometimes it's the small moments of discrimination that smack you in the face and wake you up. I recently had some minor outpatient surgery and had to take some time off work. One of the calls I had to make...Read More
Black History: Thirty Seasoned Negroes
Filed by Storm Bear | April 03, 2008 | 9:39 AM |click to enlarge This is a recreation of an advertisement for the sale of Slaves in the American South. Link Ads such as these were not the exception, they were not rare, they were in every paper and similar...Read More
What DOMA's repeal still wouldn't do
Filed by Don Sherfick | April 03, 2008 | 8:00 AM |A couple of days ago guest poster Jeremy Bishop, Executive Director of Pride at Work, discussed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as an impediment to marriage equality. I fully agree with almost everything he says and commend him for...Read More
Report-Back from the Women, Action, and the Media Conference (WAM!)
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | April 03, 2008 | 1:59 AM |I spent last weekend in Cambridge at the Women, Action, and the Media Conference (aka WAM!), a gathering of media makers, activists, and others. Lo-o-ng report-back after the jump....Read More
